breather

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -iːðə(r)

Noun

breather (plural breathers)

1. Something or someone that breathes.
2. A short break; a rest or respite.

   After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.

3. (physics) A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
4. (colloquial, dated) That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.

Translations

something that breathes

• Finnish: hengittäjä (fi)
• German: Atmende (de) m and f

• Turkish: nefes alan (tr)

short break

• Finnish: hengähdysaika (fi), hengähdystauko (fi)
• German: Verschnaufpause (de) f, (colloquial) Atempause (de) f
• Manx: aash veg (gv) f

• Slovak: oddych (sk) m
• Turkish: ara (tr)

physics: kind of excitation